VAT

See also: Appendix:Variations of "vat"

Translingual

Symbol

VAT

1. (international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code for the Vatican City.

   Synonym: VA (alpha-2)

English

Pronunciation

• (initialism) enPR: vē"-ā-tē', IPA^(key): /ˌviːeɪˈtiː/
• (acronym) enPR: văt, IPA^(key): /væt/
• Rhymes: -iː, -æt

Noun

VAT (uncountable)

2. (taxation) Initialism of value added tax.

   Synonym: GST (“goods and services tax”)

   • 2024 December 28, Jonathan Nicholson, “Yes, There Are Ways To Cut The Budget Deficit. 'DOGE' Hasn’t Found Them So Far.”, in HuffPost‎:

     And neither party is up for imposing a VAT in place of the current income tax system.

3. Initialism of vigilance awareness training.

Translations

initialism for value-added tax — see also value added tax

Afrikaans: BTW (af) Armenian: ԱԱՀ (hy) (AAH) Basque: BEZ (eu) Bulgarian: ДДС (bg) (DDS) Catalan: IVA (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 增值稅 / 增值税 (zh) (zēngzhíshuì) Czech: DPH (cs) Danish: moms c Dutch: btw (nl) Estonian: km (et) Finnish: ALV (fi) French: TVA (fr) Georgian: დღგ (dɣg) German: MwSt. (de) Greek: ΦΠΑ (el) (FPA) Hebrew: מע״מ Hungarian: áfa (hu) Icelandic: VSK, VASK Indonesian: PPN Irish: CBL Italian: IVA (it) Japanese: 消費税 (ja) (しょうひぜい, shōhizei) Latvian: PVN Lithuanian: PVM m Norwegian: moms (no), mva. Polish: VAT (pl) m Portuguese: IVA (pt) Romanian: TVA n Russian: НДС (ru) m (NDS) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ПДВ m Roman: PDV (sh) m Slovak: DPH Slovene: DDV (sl) Spanish: IVA (es) m, IGV m (Honduras, Peru) Swedish: moms (sv) c Turkish: KDV (tr) Welsh: TAW

Anagrams

• ATV, TVA, VTA, tav, vta

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

VAT

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Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from English VAT.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvat/

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• Rhymes: -at
• Syllabification: VAT
• Homophones: wat, Wat, WAT

Noun

VAT m inan (indeclinable, related adjective VAT-owski or vatowski)

1. VAT (value added tax)

   Synonym: podatek od towarów i usług

2. VAT (form that is used to account for value added tax)

Declension

Declension of VAT

	singular	plural
nominative	VAT	VAT-y
genitive	VAT-u	VAT-ów
dative	VAT-u	VAT-om
accusative	VAT	VAT-y
instrumental	VAT-em	VAT-ami
locative	Vacie	VAT-ach
vocative	Vacie	VAT-y

or

Indeclinable

Derived terms

nouns

• VAT-owiec
• vatowiec

Further reading

• VAT in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• VAT in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• VAT in PWN's encyclopedia